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Article #6199Re: Where can I get style sheet for producing a UNIX man page
From: Ian Moor
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1989 21:52
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1989 21:52
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In article <870@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dave@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Dave Stuit) writes:
> My question for the net: Why typeset UNIX man pages in TeX? UNIX man pages
> are formatted in *roff format because (1) nroff is universally available
> (and some variation of troff usually is available on systems with the
> appropriate output devices), and (2) *roff format allows straight ASCII text
> (online man pages) and typeset documents (printed man pages) to be produced
> from the same input file. The whole UNIX online manual facility is built
> around *roff-formatted pages.
nroff is not portable -- you have to have a Unix system, and troff seems tied
to certain devices, I know about ditroff, but you have to pay for it.
There are three TeX to ascii converters that I know of (dvidoc, dvitty and
crudetype), and of course tr2tex to convert your manual pages to TeX :-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!cfa!iwm From: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Where can I get style sheet for producing a UNIX man page Message-ID: <1507@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> Date: 20 Apr 89 21:52:49 GMT References: <16344@oberon.USC.EDU> <870@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Sender: news@cfa.harvard.EDU Followup-To: comp.text Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, London Lines: 26 In-reply-to: dave@jarthur.Claremont.EDU's message of 16 Apr 89 10:53:19 GMT Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.2 of Wed Sep 16 1987 on ivax (berkeley-unix)